Wolf, transformation into, 83; said to have guided the Samnites, 186 _n._4 —— -god, Zeus as the, 83 Wolves, Soranian, 186 _n._4 Woman, Sawing the Old, a Lenten ceremony, 240 _sqq._ Wood, King of the, at Nemi, 28 Woodpecker (_picus_) said to have guided the Piceni, 186 _n._4; sacred among the Latins, _ib._ Worship of dead kings, 24 _sq._ Wotjobaluk, the, 64 Wounding the dead or dying, custom of, 13 _sq._ Wrestling-matches in honour of the dead, 97 Wurmlingen in Swabia, Whitsuntide custom at, 207 _sq._; the Carnival Fool at, 231 _sq._ Wyse, W., 144 Xeres, Fr., early Spanish historian, 185 Xerxes in Thessaly, 161, 163 Ximanas, an Indian tribe of the Amazon, kill all their firstborn children, 185 _sq._ Yarilo, the funeral of, 261, 262 _sq._ Year, the Great, 70 Years, mode of counting the, in Manipur, 117 _n._1 Yerrunthally tribe of Queensland, 64 Yorubas, the, 41, 112 Youths and maidens, tribute of, sent to Minos, 74 _sqq._ Zagmuk, a Babylonian festival, 110 _sq._, 113, 115 _sqq._ Zeus, the grave of, 3; oracular cave of, 70; on Mount Lycaeus, 70 _n._1; his transformations into animals, 82 _sq._; the Wolf-god, 83; the Olympic victors regarded as embodiments of, 90 _sq._; swallows his wife Metis, 192; his marriage with his sister Hera, 194; and Europa, 73 —— and Hera, sacred marriage of, 91 —— Laphystian, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165 Zimmern, H., 111 _n._1 Zoganes at Babylon, 114 Zulu kings put to death, 36 _sq._ Zurich, effigies of Winter burnt at, 260 _sq._ FOOTNOTES M1 Mortality of savage gods, Greek gods.